John Merrill
Staff Software Engineer at Boston Dynamics
Greater Boston United States
Summary
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Top SchoolJohn Merrill is a Staff Software Engineer with 11 years of expertise in low-level systems, embedded software, and secure OS design, currently shaping on-robot compute for Boston Dynamics' Stretch platform. He brings end-to-end debugging experience from silicon to UI, plus deep skills in reverse engineering, fuzzing, emulation, and Linux kernel hacking across C, C++, Python, Rust, and Go. His background includes platform security and cloud-backed build systems at Amazon, Windows kernel fuzzing automation at Citrix, and a research-oriented track in embedded security and program analysis at Draper. Comfortable operating at the intersection of research and production, he frequently bridges tooling, CI security, and firmware-level reliability to harden complex systems. An uncommon strength is his fluency across hardware, virtualization, and networked embedded stacks, enabling rapid root-cause discovery in heterogeneous environments.
11 years of coding experience
9 years of employment as a software developer
High School, High School at Masconomet Regional High SchoolUMass Lowell
English
Github Skills (36)
code-coverage8
bochs8
policies7
coverage7
kernel6
lg6
targets6
security6
esxi6
simulation6
testing6
fuzzer5
validation5
firmware5
null-safety5
Programming languages (6)
Github contributions (5)
JohnPMerrill/N-Body-Simulation
Apr 2016 - May 2018
Contributions:7 pushes, 1 branch, 3 issues in 2 years 1 month
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